174 Mr. 0. Tliomas on 



pinkisli suffusion, nearly matching Ridgway's " ecru-drab " ; 

 sides still paler, ^' light ecru-drab/' and belly more broadly 

 white than in nasuta. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 375 mm. ; tail 165 ; hind foot 77 ; ear 4.2. 



Skull: greatest length 90; condylo-basal length 84; 

 zygomatic breadth 32*5 ; gnathion to orbit 53*5 ; palatal 

 length 53 ; diameter of bullae parallel with meatal opening 6; 

 combined length of ms,^~^ 12. 



Hab. as above. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 22. 12. 18. 40. Original 

 number 168. Collected 14th June, 1922. 



This bandicoot may be readily distinguished from its 

 representative in New South Wales by its beautiful ecru- 

 drab colour, much paler than is found in the more southern 

 form. 



8. Phascogale godmani, sp. n. 



c^. 93, 108, 110, 114, 117, 126, 144; $.109, 118; 

 (^ in spirit. Dinner Creek, Kavenshoe. 2900^ 



A large dark species of the Ph. flavipes group. 



Essential characters as in flavipes, with similar proportions 

 of head and body to tail, short-haired untufted tail, medium- 

 sized claws, and all the main cranial and dental charac- 

 teristics. 



But the size is conspicuously greater, the new species 

 considerably exceeding any other Australian member of this 

 group. Fur close and thick, hairs of back about 8 mm. in 

 length. Colour above dull greyish ("hair-brown'') anteriorly, 

 turning posteriorly into dull coppery or cinnamon-brown 

 on the rump and base of tail. Under surface washed with 

 cinnamon or drabby, the hairs broadly slaty for the greater 

 part of their length. Muzzle and sides of face, especially 

 the region between eye and ear, tending to be cinnamon or 

 coppery, an inconspicuous median dark line on the top of 

 the nose. Hands and feet pale brown above ; fore claws 

 of full average length, but not specially elongated as in 

 swainsoni and minima. Hairs of scrotum dull cinnamon. 

 Tail shorter than head and body, short-haired throughout, 

 the fine hairs of the extreme tip above slightly longer; 

 brown above, scarcely lighter below. 



Skull about as in flavipes, but much larger and with a 

 longer nairower muzzle. Nasals rather more expanded 

 behind than in true flavipes, less than in subsp. adusta. 

 Supraorbital edges not quite so sharply square. Palatal 



